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03/25/90 10:56:51

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,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
E#43375,
03/22/90,22:13:20,213673,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
03/22/90,22:38:19,213674,2,JIM ANDERSON,,
E#43376,7
03/22/90,23:10:16,213675,2,WILLIAM DAVIES,,3
03/22/90,23:21:38,213676,2,JOHN SERRANO,,2
]I AM STILL LOST AS TO HOW I COULD READ E-MAIL (OR SEND IT, FOR THAT
MATTER.  I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY DRIVE BAYS THE IBM AT HAS.
I AM UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT BIG IS BEAUTIFUL
JOHN SERRANO,
03/22/90,23:28:56,213677,1,ROBERT GOLENIA,,
E#43377,29
03/23/90,00:12:49,213678,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,1
03/23/90,00:44:51,213679,1,JOE ALEXANDER,,29
03/23/90,06:35:08,213680,2,PETE JONES,,1
03/23/90,09:05:03,213681,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
03/23/90,09:19:04,213682,2,MIKE SANDMAN,,27
03/23/90,11:16:03,213683,2,MARTY LINGG,,0
03/23/90,12:23:17,213684,2,JEFF MARTIN,,1
03/23/90,15:07:41,213685,2,BILL PRECHT,,5
03/23/90,15:16:33,213686,1,TONY VENTICINQUE,,7
03/23/90,16:48:23,213687,1,LANE LARRISON,,3
03/23/90,17:18:26,213688,2,ALEX ZELL,,
03/23/90,17:30:12,213689,1,JOHN JAHRLING,CHICAGO/ IL,4
]I understand that this is the first BBS.  I am pleased to log on. JCJ
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JOHN JAHRLING,
03/23/90,18:51:54,213690,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
03/23/90,18:54:06,213691,1,KEN STOX,,3
03/23/90,19:58:40,213692,2,JIM POLOUS,,
03/23/90,20:06:53,213693,2,JIM POLOUS,,
E#43378,5
03/23/90,21:06:14,213694,1,DENNIS LEONG,,2
03/23/90,22:08:48,213695,1,JIM FLANAGAN,,
E#43379,7
03/23/90,22:29:36,213696,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,2
03/23/90,22:43:52,213697,2,ARNIE MCGALL,,1
03/23/90,23:07:08,213698,2,BILL MATTSON,,4
03/23/90,23:24:09,213699,1,BILL WOLFF,,6
03/24/90,03:39:55,213700,2,TAD JOHNSON,HINSDALE,4
03/24/90,09:19:12,213701,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,2
03/24/90,09:33:36,213702,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,3
03/24/90,10:58:38,213703,2,JEFF SIMON,,2
03/24/90,11:08:34,213704,2,ED FOSTER,,1
03/24/90,11:29:45,213705,3,JAY PIAZZA,,6
03/25/90,10:44:21,213706,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,1
03/25/90,10:56:56,213707,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
43375 03/22/90 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BRENT JONES: "R/GRANDVIEW/PCO"
43376 03/22/90 JIM ANDERSON => RALPH SIMPSON: "R/DATA CARTRIDGES"
43377 03/22/90 ROBERT GOLENIA => COLIN SCHROEDER: "FAX/MODEM"
43378 03/23/90 JIM POLOUS => COLIN SHROEDER: "HARD DISK WOES"
43379 03/23/90 JIM FLANAGAN => BOB SULLIVAN: "R/C FOR THE APPLE?"

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Msg 43375 is 21 line(s) on 03/22/90 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to BRENT JONES re: R/GRANDVIEW/PCO

 Got a call from Symantek (?) customer support today, (the GrandView
folks), and they solved my problems pretty well, as well as taking down a
few points as "requests for future releases", some as "sorry, that's the
way it works", and at least one as a true bug report (they say they support
the HP Think Jet, but turns out only to be supported when "epson emulation"
is turned on).
 The "scrolling sideways" problem was solved by a VERY complex set of things,
I think part of it is that Grandview tried to do TOO much - I was working
with "paragraph styles" trying to come up with a narrower line, but it turned
out to be tied to PRINTER width, in a rather obscure way. Basically they
said "everyone seems to have trouble with that area, we're working on figuring
out how to rewrite the book".
 The BIGGEST hassle, namely that it kept me from hot-keying to some other
things, was able to be fixed in some little add-on publication that I seemed
to not have noticed "1.1 release notes" or something like that - since I
didn't know the product at ALL, the "intricacies" of what it talked about
weren't of interest on day one, but later they were they key to some
confusion.
 Anyway, the tech support was great, and I'm pretty satisfied now.
 Thanks for your comments on PCO - the version I tried was probably 3-4
years ago, things might have happened since then.

Msg 43376 is 03 line(s) on 03/22/90 from JIM ANDERSON
to RALPH SIMPSON re: R/DATA CARTRIDGES

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I have some 600xl that you could use I am asking $10 each
Jim Anderson 708-981-9300

Msg 43377 is 04 line(s) on 03/22/90 from ROBERT GOLENIA
to COLIN SCHROEDER re: FAX/MODEM

thanx for the reply, i, too don't call too often. My fax # is
1-312-282-8455 (At Chicago Laser Systems), fax what you can plus a number
where i can reach you, thanx, bob
P. S. please delete this message when done.

Msg 43378 is 08 line(s) on 03/23/90 from JIM POLOUS
to COLIN SHROEDER re: HARD DISK WOES

Once I amazed my boss with the solution to a similar problem. Although
we didn't try it on a different machine, it worked. We could boot from
floppy and format or copy software to the hard disk, put the system on
it (they tried two DOS versions). When I overheard a discussion I told them
what I'm going to tell you: Load FDISK. Choose 'Display Partition Information'
See if the status of the primary partition is 'A' or 'Active'. If So, then
it's something else. If not, go to 'Change Active Partition'
and make the Primary partition the active one. Good Luck.

Msg 43379 is 04 line(s) on 03/23/90 from JIM FLANAGAN
to BOB SULLIVAN re: R/C FOR THE APPLE?

Bob, John Mundt who is on here occasionaly and is a regular on Randy's
UNIX board, has written a couple of commercial programs in C and compiled
them to run on the Apple. I think he used the Aztec Compiler but I'm not
positive. I'm sure you can leave mail for him at Randy's.
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